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October 12, 2022

Education Week, Vol. 42, Issue 9
Student teacher Olivia Vazquez, standing, left, speaks with a student at the Eliza B. Kirkbride School in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Vazquez is finishing up her last semester at Swarthmore College and hoping to help make sure immigrant students arriving in Philadelphia have a more supportive experience in school than she did growing up.
Student-teacher Olivia Vazquez, left, speaks with a student at the Eliza B. Kirkbride School in Philadelphia on Oct. 20. Vazquez hopes to make sure immigrant students arriving in the city have a more supportive experience in school than she did growing up.
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English Learners Immigrant Students Are Under Pressure. Four Ways Districts Can Support Them
Ileana Najarro, September 23, 2022
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Education Briefly Stated: October 12, 2022
October 11, 2022
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8 min read
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Assessment Don’t Use State Tests ‘Punitively,’ Ed. Secretary Cardona Warns
Sarah Schwartz, September 23, 2022
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5 min read
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Student Achievement What the Research Says Scaling Up Intensive Tutoring: 4 Studies to Know
Sarah D. Sparks, September 27, 2022
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4 min read
The Michigan City High School Girls Varsity Basketball team hosted a Future Wolves basketball camp for elementary and middle school girls on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at the high school.
The varsity girls basketball team at Michigan City High School in Michigan City, Ind., hosted a basketball camp for elementary and middle school girls last spring.
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Student Well-Being & Movement School Sports Participation Drops, Raising Concern About 'Physical Learning Loss'
Sarah D. Sparks, September 28, 2022
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5 min read
A bald man and a woman with long brown hair tearfully hug a teen girl who is wearing a pale beighe backpack. Three women look on with concerned expressions.
A family shares a tearful reunion after Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, went into lockdown because of a false report of a shooting.
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School Climate & Safety 'Swatting' Hoaxes Disrupt Schools Across the Country. What Educators Need to Know
Evie Blad, September 21, 2022
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8 min read
A male police officer in a dark blue uniform walks between two white police SUVs parked in front of a three-story, red brick school building.
A police officer patrolled Glennwood Elementary School in Decatur, Ga., while the school was on lockdown in 2018.
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School Climate & Safety 'Swatting' Calls and Lockdowns: Tips for Schools to Ease the Anxiety and Disruption
Evie Blad, September 22, 2022
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4 min read
Amanda Jones, a librarian in Livingston Parish, La., pictured on Sept. 13, 2022. Jones is suing members of a Facebook group who harassed her virtually after she spoke against censorship in a public library meeting. Jones received angry emails and even a death threat from people across the country after she filed the lawsuit.
Amanda Jones, a librarian in Livingston Parish, La., is suing members of a Facebook group who harassed her virtually after she spoke against censorship in a public library meeting.
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Law & Courts A School Librarian Pushes Back on Censorship and Gets Death Threats and Online Harassment
Eesha Pendharkar, September 22, 2022
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7 min read
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In interviews with Education Week, educators described what features their ideal learning management system would have.
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Classroom Technology What Do Teachers Want From Learning Management Systems? We Asked
Lauraine Langreo, September 23, 2022
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4 min read
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States Election Guide 2022: Results on the Issues and Races Affecting K-12
Libby Stanford, September 27, 2022
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14 min read
Outgoing Arizona schools chief Tom Horne asserts that a major school district in Tucson is violating a new state law by continuing an ethnic studies program designed primarily for Hispanics, pointing out a quotation from a textbook used in the class, at a news conference in Phoenix on Jan. 3, 2011. A federal judge in Tucson, in a finding made public Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, ruled that an ethnic studies ban in Arizona that shuttered a popular Mexican-American program was enacted with racial discrimination. The 2010 law dismantled the Tucson Unified School District program, launching months of protests by students and parents who said it enriched school performance.
Tom Horne, the Republican nominee for the Arizona schools superintendent position, says he would put an end to critical race theory and "indoctrination" if elected.
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States Divisions on Race, Gender Intensify a Fight for State Superintendent
Libby Stanford, September 30, 2022
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9 min read
With only open windows and fans to cool the room down, students enter their non-air-conditioned classroom at Campbell High School in Ewa, Hawaii, on Aug. 3, 2015. Most of Hawaii's public schools don't have air conditioning, and record-high temperatures have left teachers and students saying they can't focus because of the heat. Hawaii lawmakers are saying it's time to cool Hawaii's public schools. A proposal being considered by the House Committee of Finance would fund air conditioning for Hawaii Department of Education schools and expedite the process to get cooling systems installed in classrooms.
Only open windows and fans cooled the room as students arrived at Campbell High School in Ewa, Hawaii, in August, 2015. Most of Hawaii's public schools don't have air conditioning, even as research shows that heat can depress student learning.
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Student Well-Being & Movement Explainer The School Year Is Getting Hotter. How Does Heat Affect Student Learning and Well-Being?
Madeline Will, September 26, 2022
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10 min read
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Student Well-Being & Movement Opinion ‘The Timing Is Critical’: How Schools Can Help Refugee Students
Jeffrey P. Winer & Luna A. Mulder, September 30, 2022
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5 min read
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Budget & Finance Opinion 6 Ways to Solve the Teacher Shortage With Federal Stimulus Money
Erin Covington, September 28, 2022
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4 min read
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Families & the Community Letter to the Editor Use Families to Help With Learning Recovery
October 11, 2022
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1 min read
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School & District Management Letter to the Editor Let’s Reimagine the Purpose of School
October 11, 2022
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1 min read
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School & District Management Opinion 3 Shifts That Will Benefit Every New Ed. Leader
Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Rodney Thomas & Adam Parrott-Sheffer, September 23, 2022
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4 min read

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